Resources for katrina, Blog Posts

This week marks the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

On the fifth anniversary of the landfall of Hurricane Katrina, DartCenter.org highlights content from our website that is relevant to journalists.

The Independent's Andrew Buncombe visits New Orleans 18 months after Hurricane Katrina and finds that the city "has barely begun to recover."

Turn on C-SPAN2 tonight at 7 p.m. (EST) and watch 2005 Ochberg Fellow Mike Walter's documentary "Breaking News, Breaking Down."

The film grew out of a 2007 Dart Society project called Target: New Orleans that sent reporters to the Gulf Coast to lend a hand in post-Katrina reconstruction. The film interweaves this trip with reporters speaking candidly about the hardest stories they've covered and how, as Walter says, "breaking news can break you down."

If you don't have C-SPAN2 on TV, don't worry; you can watch the live stream online.

New Orleans Times-Picayune columnist Chris Rose tells about his decision to seek mental health treatment after his journey "to the edge of the post-Katrina abyss."

The National Council on Disability has issued a report on the treatment of people with psychiatric disabilities during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Welcome to 2009. The Dart Center is back online for a busy couple of months; We'll keep you updated on our activities here. In the meantime, here are some items you may have missed over the holiday season.

Times-Picayune photographer John McCusker's haunting multimedia retrospective on the "ghosts of Katrina."

Denver Post reporter (and 2004 Ochberg Fellow) Miles Moffeit's feature following the first year of freedom for Tim Masters, the first Colorado murder convict freed by DNA evidence.

A new feature story in the American Psychological Association’s Monitor spotlights the interdisciplinary nature of the Dart Center’s work.

Award-winning journalists, disaster experts, mental health practitioners, and survivor advocates will gather on October 6 to discuss the ethics and craft of covering trauma news during a workshop for Cayman media professionals.

As hurricane season approaches in the American Southeast, the Shorenstein Center offers a useful starting point for journalists looking to report on the migratory effects that these natural disasters can have on communities in the Gulf Coast.